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An Overpriced “Othello” Goes Splat on Broadway
There’s a sense of occasion to the new “Othello” now at the Barrymore, on Broadway—Denzel Washington, one of our last true movie legends,…
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“Purpose” on Broadway and “Vanya” Downtown
Last season, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had a Broadway hit at Second Stage’s Hayes Theatre with his Tony Award-winning…
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Sanaz Toossi’s “English” Comes to Broadway
Sanaz Toossi began writing “English,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now at the Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre, as her…
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Under the Radar Keeps Rollin’ Along
When Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II first adapted Edna Ferber’s epic novel “Show Boat” for the stage, in the nineteen-twenties, they…
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Audra McDonald Triumphs in “Gypsy” on Broadway
In the nineteen-thirties, Gypsy Rose Lee, perhaps the world’s most famous stripper, helped transform burlesque from a vulgar pastime to…
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Family Discord and Holiday Music in “Cult of Love” and “No President”
The first image of Leslye Headland’s family drama,“Cult of Love,” on Broadway at the Hayes, looks like a Christmas card. Behind a gauzy…
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“Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!” and “Gatz” Beat On Against the Current
It may be bright and getting brighter on Broadway these days, but Off Broadway the shadows are lengthening. Desperation-level real-estate…